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Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music
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Product Description
Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #965636 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Refreshing in dealing with films of the 1980s and 1990s. It is also relatively rare to find film music books that seriously explore scores that rely to a large extent on popular music tracks. Hearing Film is a useful volume. - Senses of Cinema
No longer an esoteric domain limited to a few specialists, the world of film sound tracks has finally come into its own, thanks to books like Anahid Kassabians Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music. Turning her attention from the (traditional, male, European) realm of classical Hollywood composers to the (contemporary, female, American) sphere of music supervisors and compiled scores, Kassabian brilliantly shows how contemporary film music anchors a gendered identification process. Hearing Film is not just first-rate scholarship, its exciting reading! - Rick Altman, University of Iowa Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature
No longer an esoteric domain limited to a few specialists, the world of film sound tracks has finally come into its own, thanks to books like Anahid Kassabian's Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music. Turning her attention from the (traditional, male, European) realm of classical Hollywood composers to the (contemporary, female, American) sphere of music supervisors and compiled scores, Kassabian brilliantly shows how contemporary film music anchors a gendered identification process. Hearing Film is not just first-rate scholarship, it's exciting reading!.
–Rick Altman, University of Iowa Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature
refreshing in dealing with films of the 1980s and 1990s. It is also relatively rare to find film music books that seriously explore scores that rely to a large extent on popular music tracks. Hearing Film is a useful volume.
–Senses of Cinema
About the Author
Anahid Kassabian is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and Editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. She coedited the book Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (UP of Virginia, 1997) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on popular music, film music and feminist theory.
